Remember......govern ment promise of Computers and Internet for all students that need them....????

lemongrove

Am neither desperate ?or a Johnson fan.... but can see that
In exceptional circumstances promises can be broken, although if what GG13 says she has heard is true then there will be computers delivered, even though later than promised.
As to ‘deliberate’ timing, I doubt it was that at all.Your last sentence Gill is emotive and nonsensical.

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Some people will defend the government and their choices on spending whatever it is - lorry parks, track n trace contracts, HS2, ferry companies with no ferries etc. then turn round and say there’s no money for schools because of the pandemic......

The emotive and nonsensical sentence was ‘or do some of you think that if people can’t afford laptops they shouldn’t have children?’
There is absolutely nothing on this thread to support a statement like that.

Uh oh! suzie’s line of emojis are back!

vegansrock

Some people will defend the government and their choices on spending whatever it is - lorry parks, track n trace contracts, HS2, ferry companies with no ferries etc. then turn round and say there’s no money for schools because of the pandemic......

Eh? What?
Who on here is defending that list of things?

lemongrove

Uh oh! suzie’s line of emojis are back!

Oohhh here’s some more ???????????????????

I am still wondering about the 41 brand new hospitals which Boris promised earlier this year as well as the 37 new special schools. Poof! Disappeared.

We are in the midst of a pandemic I know that, but i suspect these will not be seen or heard of again rather like the thousands of extra doctors and nurses needed, who are needed even more now given thise we have are running on empty. Too many promises of this and that which never materialise.

lemongrove

Am neither desperate ?or a Johnson fan.... but can see that
In exceptional circumstances promises can be broken, although if what GG13 says she has heard is true then there will be computers delivered, even though later than promised.
As to ‘deliberate’ timing, I doubt it was that at all.Your last sentence Gill is emotive and nonsensical.

How many promises- 1, 2, 3, all of the, every single one? How nonsensical is that? Poverty btw, is emotive- and when children have to be home educated, not having a computer means NO education- emotive indeed.

GrannyGravy13

According to the lunchtime news (ITV) the Government have said that there is a problem with the supply chain and it is hopeful that all computers required will be delivered before the Christmas break.

That's not what headteachers have been told. Maybe it's lack of communication, which wouldn't be surprising.

There are dozens of headteachers on the various teachers' groups I visit who are complaining that they have received about a third of the number of computers they requested.

The contract, worth £98 million, was outsourced to a private company, so maybe the government doesn't know what's going on.

The fact is that thousands of children are currently (before the half term break) having to work from home and the situation will almost certainly become worse over the next few weeks before Christmas. There are calls for blended learning to become the norm to make schools safer places, by enabling smaller classes. Christmas is too late!